In a memorable press conference after they lost their first-round series against the eventual champion Boston Celtics in five ...

Longtime Los Angeles Lakers guard/forward Michael Cooper was finally inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame this past ...

During Riley’s season-ending news conference in May, he challenged Butler to be available for more games moving forward.

Zachary Weinberger is a credentialed Miami Heat reporter and an Associate Editor covering the NBA at-large, NCAA Football, ...

Cooper's teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the legendary Lakers center ... James Worthy and former Lakers head coach Pat Riley, will present Cooper at the ceremony.

The Los Angeles Lakers have two major inductees in the 2024 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class. One is perhaps ...

When Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo called former Los Angeles Lakers Showtime-era legend ...

The Lakers' defensive specialist was more than that. "If we don't have Coop, we don't win those series," former Lakers ...

Defense -- not offense -- was Michael Cooper's calling card, helping the Lakers claim 5 NBA titles during the 1980s.

Thirteen players from the NBA and WNBA, along with the late NBA legend Jerry West, will be enshrined in the 2024 class of the ...

Lisa Leslie was in Springfield, Massachusetts on Sunday to support Michael Cooper's induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.